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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Galium pilosum
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Galium pilosum
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Galium pilosum
INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Galium pilosum var. pilosum
INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Galium pilosum var. puncticulosum
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 173-10-005:
Galium pilosum FAMILY Rubiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Galium pilosum
COMMON NAME:
Hairy Bedstraw
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_gapi2_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm210406_9187
April Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm200505_4615
May Spartanburg County SC
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JK Marlow jkm120617_061
June Spartanburg County SC
Stem square between nodes, rough when young, with hooked hairs on angles, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm120617_064
June Spartanburg County SC
[The Sweetgum leaf provides some scale.] Fruit 2-3mm long, 3-4mm wide, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm120628_309
June Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm120628_340
June Greenville County SC
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Roxanna Martin rlm61811_25
June Spartanburg County SC
Flowers at ends of many branchlets, may be greenish-white or purplish, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm060731_026
July Greenville County SC
Bunched Arrowhead Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm060731_027
July Greenville County SC
Bunched Arrowhead Heritage Preserve
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Roxanna Martin rlm82510_113
August Spartanburg County SC
Stem square between nodes, rough when young, becoming smooth, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005).
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Roxanna Martin rlm82510_122
August Spartanburg County SC
Leaves elliptic to weakly ovate, mucronate, pilose-hispid, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Roxanna Martin rlm82510_95
August Spartanburg County SC
White to greenish-maroon flowers on pedicels & in clusters, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Roxanna Martin rlm82810_44
August Spartanburg County SC
Dry, hook-bristled, spherical fruit, green maturing brown or black, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005).
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmgpilosumvarpuncti_buz
Month Unknown Oconee County SC
Buzzard Roost Heritage Preserve
Galium pilosum var. puncticulosum
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Galium pilosum
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Galium pilosum
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Galium pilosum
INCLUDING
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Galium pilosum var. pilosum
INCLUDING
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Galium pilosum var. puncticulosum
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 173-10-005:
Galium pilosum
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Galium pilosum
2031
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: forests, woodland borders, longleaf pine sandhills, prairies, coastal prairies, clearings, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common
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LEAVES:
Simple
Whorls of 4
Margins entire
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Greenish-white/ Brownish-maroon
Radially symmetrical
Sepals usually obsolete
4-5 lobed rotate corolla
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Brown/Black
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005) p084
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p154
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p356
- Wildflowers in the Field and Forest: Northeastern US (Clemants & Gracie, 2006) p126
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p318
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p261
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p304
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p164
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